In 2008, his first novel My friend, Sancho was nominated to the longlist for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008.
[3] Amit Varma has worked in advertising, television and journalism, and has written for publications like The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
[4] The editor of Pragati, an online magazine,[5] Amit Varma also hosts a podcast,[6] The Seen and the Unseen, on public policy, economics and behavioural science.
[7][8][9] He also cohosts another weekly podcast, Everything is Everything, with Ajay Shah that follows a more relaxed format and focuses on a wide range of topics which are considered to be contemporary.
[10][11] In October 2007, Varma won the 2007 Bastiat Prize for Journalism, which aims to honor writers "whose work cleverly and wittily promotes the institutions of the free society".